Symfony Developer / System Admin
Location: GB, RIC, Teddington
Salary range: 35000-45000
Employment type: Full-time
Industry: Consumer Services

Company profile:
VouchedFor is a highly disruptive start up in the Financial Advice market. Created in 2011, we are an innovative start-up backed by investors whose previous successes include Zoopla, eBay, Lovefilm and Betfair. We connect consumers with Independent Financial Advisers and Mortgage Advisors that they can trust, based on customer reviews. We have exciting plans to do a whole lot more, makinggreat financial advice accessible and engaging to all.VouchedFor is the only UK digital platform that lets you find, rate and review Independent Advisors.We have successfully carved a place for ourselves in a commercial sector with revenues over £4.4 billion, and with nearly 2000 financial advisers now signed up, VouchedFor has created adviser capacity in excess of even the largest financial firms (e.g., St James Place, Barclays Wealth, Hargreaves Lansdown). The product and marketing opportunities this presents are endless, spanning investments, pensions, mortgages, annuities and more. This role is literally an opportunity to change the way the UK public goes about managing its wealth.

Job description:
Joining our development team you'll be working alongside our back and front end developers to deliver the latest iterations of our brand new product as we expand (this is a very green field project so you have the opportunity to make a big difference). You'll be fluent in PHP with lots of great experience in Symfony, maybe even contributing to the core product or related bundles. You'll take on some of the build and deployment processes in order to get to a completely automated deployment using tools like Puppet, Vagrant, Jenkins and Capistrano. You'll be confident in the Linux server environment and be able to help us scale. You'll ensure we can deliver a blazingly fast site through optimization and introducing the right kinds of caching.To start you'll be working on a new project developing our API, introducing new features and ensuing the site performs well. Building on and making our development practices better to get to a completely automated build, test and release cycle delivering quality code consistently. Keeping abreast of new tools, methodologies and releases and ensuring we stay keep up to date on product versions and look to use newer tools when it makes sense. 

Requirements:
About you:You're an experienced coder with a passion for technological innovation and improvement. You enjoy solving problems efficiently and finding the right tools for the job. You will be confident in a cloud hosted environment installing and configuring new servers and services as well as developing new features and integrations.You have:• Significant experience of Symfony 2 or similar MVC framework / PHP development• Expertise Developing Restful APIs• Finding appropriate bundles and modifying them where required.• Unit Testing and Continuous Build• MySQL expertise, use of Doctrine or similar an advantage• Source Control (Git)• Agile Development methodologies• Linux sysadmin (Cent OS) and build tools• Cloud Hosting environments (Openstack, AWS or similar)• Caching technologies (memcache, varnish, CDN's and similar)• Web Server configuration and security (Apache, Nginx)

Benefits:
Competitive Salary• Start-up culture - we have fun and your contributions are valued• Modern office, tea coffee and biscuits on us• Friday Team lunch and regular social events.• High Spec workstation.